To those selling in these difficult times Part Deux. AKA sellers support network!

elona

maggie

Thanks for the good wishes.

I pressed the "thanks" button but it keeps telling me I am not allowed to use it!

ukmaggie45

Hi Elona,

elona wrote: »

maggie

Thanks for the good wishes.

I pressed the "thanks" button but it keeps telling me I am not allowed to use it!

You are on my oojamathig saying you thanked me for that post, so I guess it is stopping you thanking me more than once. Thanks for your Thanks! :T

I get similar all the time as I'm having browser problems on my laptop (am using OH's tonight as he's off out at a meetin).

Got everything crossed for you. Do take care of yourself. Even over 2 years after my parents died (plus all the sol probs we had with the Estates before we instructed another) I have times when I can't eat etc.

Am going for (person centred) counselling, mostly weekly (breaks for each of our holidays) and it is really helping, but a long process. There is some available on NHS, though usually short term(around 10 weeks I think - I've been going for over a year now, but privately - I'm just messed up! ).

I think it really does help to treat yourself when you can. I've bought clothes in sales or Oxfam that have cheered me up. Doesn't have to be expensive.

Here's hoping one of your viewers decides to offer soon.

Hugs (if you feel able to take cyber hugs from a stranger),

Maggie

spirit

Vixter - I hope that positive things have come from your viewing and drive by.

Elona - I wish you well too, sounds nightmarish = ditto ukmaggie45
hugs to you all

I've had a weird old few days. so far I have got..

Mr and Mrs FTB's who have offered £245 and wont go over that.

Ms Stuck-in-a-broken-chain who would offer my base line which is £249,995 but is not proceedable just yet.

Mr and Mrs Used To Live Next Door and who are now looking to downsize and come back here. They have a tatty bungalow for sale and haven't been able to as yet. (this one is the private sale, the people I met at next door's funeral wake)

Then there is Ms On Another Planet. She initially viewed last week and decided the downstairs layout didn't work for her. (i have a separate utility and study on a side extension). she came back Saturday afternoon and was talking with the agent about what she could do with that space. She offered £245k and wouldn't budge from that, not even meet me halfway at £247,500. My agent said she was er, a bit hard work. Apparently she's not bought and sold for a long time and doesn't know the form.

If I was going to accept £245, I would have done so from FTBs. She said it was because she WANTED to do some converting in the utility to make a bigger study. so I've said fine, but I'm not funding that and rejected her offer. I might be mad, but the agent said £250k is a reasonable figure (is on at £265k). I told them at the time that I didn't want to be on at an inflated figure and sit on the market for ages. they assured me they had sold similar properties for that figure.

The agent went back to her last night because she wants to bring a family member back for another viewing today. He told her that it's a waste of time if she isn't thinking of upping her offer. He also told me that she said was she likely to lose my house if she didn't! Of couse, he said, I have other interest and more viewings booked.

Which brings me to my last rant for this morning. Another negotiator at my agents rang yesterday afternoon asking if they could bring someone round my house at 4pm. apart from the panic that I couldn't remember making the beds etc and putting the cat litter tray - I also had a curry doing in the slow cooker :rotfl:

Then at about 4.20, agents rang to say the negotiator was held up and could I let them in and show round. Er, now they know I work 27 miles away :mad:
so that was a viewer lost as she couldn't hang around any longer.

sorry for the long post! I have to wait now and see what happens after her 1pm viewing!

asajoseph

At least you're getting the offers in spirit, that's a very positive sign, even if they're not quite where you want them to be.

£265k is a tricky price-point really, as people will not be too keen to jump that stamp duty threshold, and you have to be very sure that you can get an offer around the £260k mark to make it worthwhile (but I guess you know all this!).

asajoseph

Hah, who'd have thunk it, I just got my first offer.

£232k, well below the asking price, and also quite a bit below the minimum I'd accept - but it's a first offer, without even a second viewing, and my property's only been marketted at it's new price for a few days, so I'm pretty happy with that.

Hoping they'll come back with a new offer, but even if they dont, at least it shows I don't live in such a fleapit that nobody else would ever want to live there

spirit

well done asajoseph! :T still keeping my fingers crossed for you.

cptncanary

It's very interesting to see everyone's recent experiences.

My property was put on the market around 4 weeks ago, for £299,950. We had 2 viewings in the first week, and one offered £270,000 after a 2nd viewing. We rejected this at the time, as the house we are after was up for £375k, and the mortgage difference would have been too great.
However, we've since dropped our house to £289,950 (and got the same £270k offer from a different viewer), but seem the house we like drop by £15k.
To push things along a bit, our EA has recommended we adjust our price to £279,950, which he did yesterday.

Am I correct in my thinking, that as long as the sellers of our next house are willing to drop further (matching the drop in our price accordingly), we should be able to move ahead? Obviously, this may have an impact on THEIR next purchase.

It's all starting to do my head in!!!

spirit

welcome cptncanary!

Yes it does do ones head in.

I would say that yes, you would have to pass on any percentage decreases, so in turn would your sellers etc.

cptncanary

Thanks Spirit, I was hoping I was right.

TBH, I wasn't expecting to be thinking of selling again, as we've been in our current house for 15 years already. The prompt to sell came when the Secretary of State rubberstamped Europe's largest warehouse to be built just down the road :mad::mad:

spirit

Oh dear, I've not heard of that, I am a Hampshire resident too - what part is this happening cptncanary?